Titre :	Selected essays, poems and other writings
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	George Eliot ; A. S. Byatt ; Nicholas Warren
Editeur :	London [England] : Penguin Books
Année de publication :	1990
Collection :	Penguin classics
Importance :	xxxviii, 505 p.
Présentation :	ill.,couv.en coul
Format :	20 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-14-043148-3
Langues :	Anglais
Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:429 Old english ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature
Résumé :	The works assembled here introduce George Eliot’s incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot’s translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts from her poems, and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe, and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most rewarding of writers.

Selected essays, poems and other writings [texte imprimé] / George Eliot ; A. S. Byatt ; Nicholas Warren . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 1990 . - xxxviii, 505 p. : ill.,couv.en coul ; 20 cm. - (Penguin classics) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-043148-3
Langues : Anglais

Catégories :

LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:429 Old english ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature

Résumé :

The works assembled here introduce George Eliot’s incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot’s translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts from her poems, and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe, and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most rewarding of writers.